Safety iron holder

ABSTRACT

An iron rest comprising a fire resistant receiver characterized by a rectangular tray having a C-clamp by way of which it can be adjustably and detachably mounted on a transverse end of an ironing board. The tray overlies the ironing surface and has one lengthwise edge open and provided with an outstanding flange which is angled and slopes toward and rests atop the surface and provides an iron gliding and guiding ramp which facilitates sliding the iron into the receiver for temporary storage. Lower portions of the walls of the frame or rim are provided with ventilating holes.

United States Patent Paone 154] SAFETY IRON HOLDER [72] Inventor: Mary T. Paone, 30l-A Walnut Street, Bristol, Pa. 19007 22 Filed: Jan.29, 1971 21 Appl.No.: 111,025

[52] US. Cl ..248/1l7.6, 248/226 A [51] Int. Cl. ..D06f 79/02 [58] Field 0fSearch..248/ll7.6,117.7,117.2,117.3, 248/117.4

[5 6] References Cited 7 UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,942,755 1/1924 Holstrom ..248/117.3 2,632,241 3/1953 Halslip ..248/226 A 1,990,983 2/1935 Fiedler ..248/117.4 2,599,941 6/1952 Rickles.-. ..248/117.3

[ 51 Oct. 17,1972

Primary Examiner-Chancellor E. Harris AttorneyClarence A. OBrien and Harvey 8. Jacobson [57] ABSTRACT An iron rest comprising a tire resistant receiver characterized by a rectangular tray having a C-clamp by way of which it can be adjustably and detachably mounted on a transverse end of an ironing board. The tray overlies the ironing surface and has one lengthwise edge open and provided with an outstanding flange which is angled and slopes toward and rests atop the surface and provides an iron gliding and guiding ramp which facilitates sliding the iron into the receiver for temporary storage. Lower portions of the walls of the frame or rim are provided with ventilating holes.

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SAFETY IRON HOLDER This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in a tray-type iron rest, that is, a fireproof receiver and holder having a ramp which enables the user of the iron to slidingly guide the iron into the tray or receiver, the latter being provided with an attaching clamp by way of which it, the receiver, is detachably and adjustably mounted in a feasibly usuable position at one transverse end of the ironing board.

It is common practice to provide ironing board attachments classified as holders, stands and, as herein set forth, iron rests. Many and structurally variable attachments have been devised and patented by persons interested in and concerned with iron holders. For background purposes the reader, if so desired, may refer to US. Pat. No. 2,099,760 granted to Fred R. Staudle, or if preferred, U.S. Pat. No. 2,473,73l issued to Stanley Y. Sheperd Sr.

An object of the present invention, generally stated, is to advance the art, to improve upon known and patented iron holders and rests and to offer for use an adaptation which features simple but significant improvements which serve the purposes for which the present invention was devised.

Briefly, the herein disclosed iron rest comprises a simple and practical receiver and holder which is designed and adapted to be attached to and to overlie a transverse end portion of either wooden or metal ironing boards which are currently in use. This receiver, more specifically, embodies a fireproof tray which is unobstructedly open along one longitudinal side in a manner to facilitate shifting and sliding the iron from the ironing board surface into the receiver for temporary and safe storage and thereafter sliding the iron out of the tray onto the surface for ironing use. The tray or receiver is provided on its open side with an outstanding flange which is coextensive in length with the open side and is angled or sloped toward and rests atop the ironing board surface and accordingly, servesas an iron guiding and gliding ramp. The tray or receiver is characterized by a bottom or base and an encompassing U-shaped frame. The component wall portions of the frame are provided on median interior surfaces with an elevated partition which serves as the bottom or base of the iron and which defines the tray portion and also provides for desirably effective ventilation. A C-shaped clamp is rigidly connected to the receiver or tray and is so located and arranged that it positions the tray in a given place and facilitates the step of attaching and adjusting the rest.

It will be noted in particular that the components of the U-shaped frame provide transverse and longitudinal walls and that the partition-like member constitutes a bottom or wall whose marginal portions are In addition to the, above, it will be noted that the upper arm of the C-clamp is attached intermediate its ends to a median bottom portion of the tray or receiver and has a portion underlying the tray and a portion projecting outwardly and beyond the tray. The lower leg or joined to intermediate interior surface portions of the limb of the clamp extends inwardly beyond the inner end of the upper leg and is provided with a setscrew.

These together with other objects and advantages which will become subsequently apparent reside in the details of construction and operation as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part hereof, wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout, and in which:

FIG. 1 is a view in perspective showing an iron rest constructed in accordance with the instant invention, a transverse end portion of an ordinary ironing board,

how the rest is clamped in the usable position thereon,

and how the iron (in phantom lines) is temporarily stored or racked in an out-of-the-way position;

FIG. 2 is a view in perspective of the iron rest by itself;

FIG. 3 is a bottom plan view of the same; and

FIG. 4 is an enlarged transverse sectional view taken approximately on the plane of the section line 4-4 of FIG. 2 looking in the direction of the indicating arrows.

The receiver or holder of the improved iron rest is denoted, generally stated, by the numeral 6. The receiver, more specifically stated, takes the form of a fireproof tray 8 which is preferably but not necessarily, rectangular in plan. The numeral 10 denotes a horizontal flat-faced rectangular plate or member, which functions as a base or bottom, and atop which the iron A rests when stored, as brought out in FIG. 1. The several marginal edges of this plate are integrally joined in a suitable manner to interior intermediate surface portions of the components or several walls of the substantially U-shaped frame 12. This frame comprises a pair of vertically disposedtransverse end walls having like ends joined to an intervening longitudinal side wall. By integrally joining the marginal edges of the bottom plate 10 to the interior surfaces of the walls longitudinal walland complemental end they are divided into imperforate upper half-portions l4 and the lower halfportions 16. The upper half-portions surround the bottom or plate 10 and define orreceiver or tray 8. The lower half-portions depend below the underneath side of the plate or wall 10 and are provided with a multiplicity of ventilating holes 18. The lengthwise open side of the thus constructed two-part tray is constructed to achieve the aforementioned result of sliding the iron in and out of the receiver in a safe and expedient manner. The open side of the tray is denoted in FIG. 4 at 20. The adjacent lengthwise edge 22 of the bottom is provided with an extending flange 24 which is angled outwardly and downwardly and whose lower free edge 26 is adapted to rest on the ironing board surface in the manner brought out in FIG. 1. This inclined or sloping flange provides the aforementioned ramp and obviously facilitates gliding the iron from the surface B of the ironing board C into the tray for storage as illustrated in FIG. 1. v

The aforementioned C-clarnp is denoted at 28 (FIG. 4) and an intermediate portion 30 of the upper relatively leg is joined to the median bottom edge of the longitudinal tray wall so that one end portion 32 projects to the right the said longitudinal tray wall portion and the other end portion 34 projects to the left and beyond the tray in the manner illustrated. The lower complemental longer leg of the clamp is denoted at 36 and is in spaced parallelism below the upper leg and both legs are joined by the complemental outwardly projecting or offset connecting web 38. It will be noted in FIG. 4 in particular that the longer leg 36 has a terminal inner end portion 40 projecting beyond the end or edge portion 32 having a hole therein and which is provided receiver for temporary andsafe storage and subsequently sliding the iron out of the receiver onto said mounted on and carried by said receiver and positioned with an attached nut 42 which is fixed in place and the overall receiver or tray it will be seen that the tray can be applied with requisite nicety and can be used to achieve the desired results illustrated for example in H6. 1. I

The clamp equipped ventilated tray or receiver shown and described well serves the purposes for which it is intended. This is to say each component part contributes its proportionate share to the overall combination and features not only the ventilated clamp equippedopen sided tray but an adaptation wherein a simple narrow flange 24 on the open side in FIG. 4 provides a satisfactorily usable iron guiding and lifting ramp. 7 v

The foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the invention. Further, sincenumerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, itis not desired to limit the invention to the exact construction and operation-shown and described, and accordingly all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the invention. I

What is claimed as new is as follows: to

1. An iron rest comprising a receiver and holder designed and adapted to be attached to and overlie a transverse end portion of an ironing board, said receiver embodying a fireproof tray which is unobstructedly open along one side in a manner to facilitate sliding the iron from the ironing board surface into the thereon in a manner to fasten the receiver in a set usable position on said ironing board, said receiver comprising a flat horizontal imperforate plate providing a base and marginally encompassed on three marginal edges by a one-piece frame substantially U-shaped in plan and embodying a pair of vertically disposed transverse end walls having like ends jointed to an intervening longitudinal wall, several marginal edges of said plate abutting and being integrally united with median interior surface portions of said end walls and longitudinal wall, respectively, and in a manner that lower half-portions of said walls depend below the level of an underneath surface of said plate and are provided with air circulating and yentilatin holes the upper half-portrons of said walls rising to a evel above t e top level of the top side of said plate and providing an iron surrounding and confining rim, the aforementioned sloping flange being provided along that marginal edge of said bottom wall which is proximal to the aforementioned open side of the tray, said clamp comprising a C- clamp having upper and lower legs, the upper leg being narrower than the length of and confined and joined to a median portion only of the aforementioned longitudinal wall, said upper leg being shorter than the lower leg, a portion of said shorter leg projecting outwardly beyond an exterior surface of said longitudinal wall and a similar portion projecting inwardly beyond said longitudinal wall and underlying and being spaced below the aforementioned plate.

2. The iron rest defined in and according to claim 1, and wherein an inward terminal end portion of said lower longer leg projects inwardly beyond the free end of the upper shorter leg and is equipped with an adjustably mounted setscrew. 

1. An iron rest comprising a receiver and holder designed and adapted to be attached to and overlie a transverse end portion of an ironing board, said receiver embodying a fireproof tray which is unobstructedly open along one side in a manner to facilitate sliding the iron from the ironing board surface into the receiver for temporary and safe storage and subsequently sliding the iron out of the receiver onto said surface for ironing use, said tray being provided on said one open side with an outstanding flange which slopes toward and rests atop said ironing board surface and functions as an iron gliding and guiding ramp, said tray having a plurality of ventilating holes, and a clamp mounted on and carried by said receiver and positioned thereon in a manner to fasten the receiver in a set usable position on said ironing board, said receiver comprising a flat horizontal imperforate plate providing a base and marginally encompassed on three marginal edges by a one-piece frame substantially U-shaped in plan and embodying a pair of vertically disposed transverse end walls having like ends jointed to an intervening longitudinal wall, several marginal edges of said plate abutting and being integrally united with median interior surface portions of said end walls and longitudinal wall, respectively, and in a manner that lower half-portions of said walls depend below the level of an underneath surface of said plate and are provided with air circulating and ventilating holes, the upper half-portions of said walls rising to a level above the top level of the top side of said plate and providing an iron surrounding and confining rim, the aforementioned sloping flange being provided along that marginal edge of said bottom wall which is proximal to the aforementioned open side of the tray, said clamp comprising a Cclamp having upper and lower legs, the upper leg being narrower than the length of and confined and joined to a median portion only of the aforementioned longitudinal wall, said upper leg being shorter than the lower leg, a portion of said shorter leg projecting outwardly beyond an exterior surface of said longitudinal wall and a similar portion projecting inwardly beyond said longitudinal wall and underlying and being spaced below the aforementioned plate.
 2. The iron reSt defined in and according to claim 1, and wherein an inward terminal end portion of said lower longer leg projects inwardly beyond the free end of the upper shorter leg and is equipped with an adjustably mounted setscrew. 